lesson 2

Think of yourself as a filmmaker.

Start thinking like a filmmaker. Make it a habit.

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Basic principlesHigher Education (non-degree)

This lesson contains 36 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 4 videos.

Lesson duration is: 120 min

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Think of yourself as a filmmaker.

Start thinking like a filmmaker. Make it a habit.

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Examine the world around you with a filmmaker's mind.

Around every corner

there is a story.

Find them...

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Let's watch your films...

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What does a film director do?

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"What a film director really directs is his audience's attention," Alexander Mackendrick

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Selective Attention

A selective attention example is having a conversation with someone in a crowded, public space. One chooses to focus on what the friend is saying rather than every single noise present in the background. This ability is a phenomenon known as the cocktail party effect.

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The brain has evolved specialised neural mechanisms to rapidly detect faces .

Not only do we imagine faces, we analyse them and give them emotional attributes.

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www.bilibili.tv

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Direct the audience's attention

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Three act structure - can anybody tell me what it is?

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Three act structure is beginning, middle & end.

Act 1. Setup

Act 2. Confrontation

Act 3. Resolution

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Inciting Incident

The inciting incident is an event that sets the hero on the journey that will occupy them throughout the narrative.

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You must start a moment in the first act and it must gain momentum and in the final act it crashes against an immovable wall and that is it.

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Confrontation

is a clash between two opposing forces that creates the narrative thread for a story.

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Conflict occurs when the main character struggles with either an external conflict or an internal conflict

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Gordie's internal conflict is learning to live with the loss of his beloved older brother.

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The resolution

...is the end of the story.

Important!!!

Aristotle in his Poetics, the best endings are both "surprising, yet inevitable".

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Now it's your turn...

Examine your short film idea.

Has it a beginning, middle and end?

Has it an inciting incident, confrontation (exterior & interior) and resolution?

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